Subject: Re: Using Etherboot ELF/FreeBSD loader to netboot ELF/NetBSD
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/27/2003 20:48:27
>
> We probably should start adding a, "I'm a NetBSD kernel," note in order to
> help non-NetBSD booters do the right thing.
0 .text 0017099c c0100000 c0100000 00001000 2**2
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
1 .rodata 0002c061 c02709a0 c02709a0 001719a0 2**5
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
2 .data 0001b4b0 c029da20 c029da20 0019da20 2**5
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
3 .bss 00045d1c c02b8ee0 c02b8ee0 001b8ee0 2**5
ALLOC
4 .note 00001fe0 c02febfc c02febfc 001b8ee0 2**0
CONTENTS, READONLY
5 .ident 00000434 c0300bdc c0300bdc 001baec0 2**0
CONTENTS, READONLY
looks there is no such section in kernel binary (there is in regular
userland binaries).
now compiling test kernel with options REALBASEMEM/REALEXTMEM hardwired to
see if other things are different too.